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Opinion: Dan Hill on 'smart cities'
31 January 2014Though we’re still waiting for hoverboards, we live in an era long predicted by science fiction, where technology can intelligently operate our cities, responding to our needs. But instead of focusing on smart cities we should be concentrating on smart citizens, says Dan Hill as he outlines the past 10 years of smart-city thinking. Dan Hill is CEO of Fabrica, a design and communications research centre in Treviso, Italy
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The art of repetition: Soviet-era posters
31 January 2014An exhibition of iconic Soviet-era posters for iconic Soviet-era silent films go on display in London this January, produced using a combination of painterly technique and bold, graphic typography
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Zaha Hadid on designing the new Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku
31 January 2014The architect speaks to Blueprint about her approach to creating the new Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku
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Design Museum calls for Designers in Residence 2014
28 January 2014London’s Design Museum is calling for entries for this year’s Designers in Residence, for which Blueprint is a media partner.
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In the Making at the Design Museum with Barber & Osgerby
23 January 2014On at the Design Museum in London, Barber & Osgerby’s In The Making show explores the design duo’s fascination with the making process via unfinished objects, from pure high-tech silicon to how they put the swirl in a glass marble. Editor Johnny Tucker caught up with the design pair separately and asked them to question each other about the subject via Blueprint. You’re reading their answers at the same time as they are
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Familiar theme: China's copycat cities
22 January 2014Quite apart from the industrial production of fake branded products and counterfeits is the double phenomenon of China’s ‘copycat cities’. Often spectacularly unoccupied, these have not only borrowed heavily from townscapes around Europe, but also speak of an unique aspiration of self-invention
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The past is an English country: the story of English Heritage
22 January 2014A hundred years ago, worried about Britain’s built environment, the state established the listings system and gave itself the power to make a collection of buildings for ‘public benefit and education’. Today English Heritage, which continues that work, fights to preserve a modern heritage that its antecedents would be astounded by. We look at some of the more dramatic case histories of recent years
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Photographing the Berlin wall – or where it once stood
21 January 2014Photographer Paul Raftery revisits the site of the Berlin Wall and documents the huge changes that have taken place in the once divided city since the wall came down in 1989
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Street artists take over abandoned Paris nightclub
21 January 2014The dilapidated building that was home to the famous Parisian nightclub Les Bains Douches — once the haunt of international celebrities from film, music and art — is scheduled to be redeveloped as a boutique hotel. But not before 50 street artists took up an invitation to fill the space with spectacular, ephemeral works
